I Was A Lapis Lazuli Pigment Lump In A Past Life

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[a-mythologynerd]

Okay I love how in Letters from Ketterdam: A Darker Shore that you can tell when Kaz realizes the letters are being intercepted. Like the previous letter is so much more vulnerable? The whole section about the farm and wanting Inej to come visit it? And after this we are on Club Cumulus paper and there’s a less sentimental, less effusive, more to the point and typical Kaz flippantness to the remaining letters. We were robbed by the Merchant Council and their interceptions.

[dajo42]

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

[computationalcalculator]

my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament

[idontgettechnology]

I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.

However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."

I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."

And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."

And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.

So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.

[libraryogre]

At a certain point, the appropriate response to "What were you doing at the devil's sacrament" becomes "stealing shoelaces from the president."

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you were stealing shoelaces from the President

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags: What’s your evil, alternate timeline self? Mine’s the one where I didn’t bail on my forensic psych degree and actually became an FBI profiler. 

[bethanydelleman]

Okay, the Pride & Prejudice BBC mini, Sense & Sensibility Emma Thompson, Persuasion Amanda Root, AND Clueless came out in 1995? And they are all timeless classics that did an amazing job adapting the novels? (even if I have some quibbles)

What was in the water and how do we get it back?

[a-mythologynerd]

I will say I’m a little confused on the timeline of Letter from Ketterdam. We know it’s after the Rule of Wolves duology cause it mentions Zoya on the throne and Nina in disguised and set up as the Fjerden queen but the map in the front has no mention of the Silver Six and nor does the text. It’s still called the Kaelish Prince. So, just a map error or continuity problem?

[goodmagicianproperthief]

*letters from ketterdam spoiler*

oh nothing just thinking of the irony of kaz making fun of matthias for worshipping a tree when the reason he still believes in beauty and happiness is the memory of his apple trees and the promise of reuniting with them again one day

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

captain ghafa come back to ketterdam your mob boss boyfriend is bored and extreme cosplaying again

[maidenofcrows]

None of my thoughts on Letters from Ketterdam are coherent enough to share but the “!!!!!” I felt on every page was just

!!!!!

[artbymyth]

[artbymyth]

[artbymyth]

“Everything in him recoiled. The water was cold against his legs. His body had gone numb and yet he could still feel the wet give of his brother’s rotting flesh beneath his hands. It’s shame that eats men whole. He was drowning in it. He was drowning in the Ketterdam harbor.”

[artbymyth]

They’re still judging you. (But now in color)

Inej and Kaz being best friends first (who sit and watch and judge everyone else) is so important to me. Also I just kept thinking about Inej’s snarky comments and thoughts about Wylan that she makes known to Kaz pre heist while drawing this.

[artbymyth]

“Surviving was easy once he left decency behind.”

A very bloody Kaz and the bodies from the Harbor (featuring a windowsill crow, it’s feathers, and a DeKappel)

[artbymyth]

“Kaz’s cane was gone. He spread his gloved hands wide. Again Inej thought of a magician. Nothing up my sleeves.”

The Slat fight is my all time favorite scene in Six of Crows. It shows so much about Kaz as a character. He’s a scrapper. He’s a rabid dog. He’ll do anything to get the upper hand. He’ll slip and trick his way out. He’ll meet things head on. It’s all an act. It’s all too real. He always gets back up. He’s a mess of contradictions and he never stops fighting.

I wanted to show the juxtaposition of the violence and the performance with Kaz almost in a spotlight holding court and a defeated Dreg below. The righteousness and the immoral in a halo of red suits, evoking a target. And maybe just maybe there’s a faint shadow watching above…

[artbymyth]

“She wanted a storm—thunder, wind, a deluge. She wanted it to crash through Ketterdam’s pleasure houses, lifting roofs and tearing doors off their hinges. She wanted to raise the sea, take hold of every slaving ship, shatter their masts, and smash their hulls against unforgiving shores. I want to call that storm.”

[artbymyth]

“‘I would come for you, he said,’ and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. ‘I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.’”

[artbymyth]

You guys wanna see the dumbest thing I’ve ever drawn? Six of Crows except it’s set in the Dutch Golden Age.